And the Lord our God turned him over to us, and we defeated him with his sons and all his people.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, his sons, and all his people.
- KJV And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
- BSB And the LORD our God delivered him over to us, and we defeated him and his sons and his whole army.
- NKJV And the Lord our God delivered him over to us; so we defeated him, his sons, and all his people.
- NLT But the Lord our God handed him over to us, and we crushed him, his sons, and all his people.
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Quick answer
The LORD delivered Sihon to Israel, who struck him, his sons, and all his people. It credits the victory to God.
Overview
The decisive triumph over Sihon is framed as the LORD's act of handing the enemy over, with Israel as the instrument. This total defeat fulfills the promise of verse 31 and becomes a recurring memorial of God's faithfulness throughout the Old Testament. It reminds God's people that their security rests in His saving power.
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 7:2and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
- Josh 21:44Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
- Judg 1:4Judah went up, and Yahweh delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand. They struck ten thousand men in Bezek.
- Josh 10:30–42Yahweh delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Deut 20:16But of the cities of these peoples, that Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes;
- Deut 29:7–8When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
- Judg 7:2Yahweh said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel brag against me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’
- Num 21:24Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
- Deut 3:2–3Yahweh said to me, “Don’t fear him; for I have delivered him, with all his people, and his land, into your hand. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”
- Gen 14:20and blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
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